Kamacuras カマキラス (Showa)

Living on a remote island, a race of man-sized
praying mantises flourished. Traveling in small
groups, the giant mantises roamed the lush landscape,
until the Japanese government set up a base
for testing a new system of weather control.
However, the results of the test were fowled
up, and Sollgel Island was transformed. The radioactive
storm swept through the land, causing mass deforestation
in parts and mutations in the local inhabitants,
changing the already giant mantises into a much
more immediate threat.

While going to check up on one of their satellite
towers, the Sollgel Island scientists witness
what the radioactive fallout had created. Transformed,
the once man-sized bugs were now huge and ravenousness
monsters as the Kamacurus towered over the canopy.
With wide eyes, they watched as the group of
scavengers tore a mountain to crumbling dust,
revealing a gigantic egg. Cracking it open,
the segmented eyes of the Kamacurus glared hungrily
to the son of Godzilla. Dubbed Minilla, the
tiny infant was about to meet his end at their
clawed hands, when Godzilla intervened.

Battling all three, and killing two, Godzilla
proved his might, and took his son away. Leaving
the broken and flaming remains of the Kamacurus.
Though the nuclear titan did kill a few, and
another fell before Kumonga's might, more lived
on. Retreating from the island, after the humans
bombard it with an artificially created snowstorm;
the insects found a new home amongst the inhabitants
of Monster Island.